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(No Model.) E. P. HAFPI- HAIR PIN PACKAGE. No. 276,031. Patented Apr. 17,1883.

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IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD P. HAFF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HAIR-PIN PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,031, dated April 17, 1883. 7

Application filed December 27, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD P. HAFF, ofthe city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pin Packages; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accom panyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to boxes intended for holding assorted sizes of hair-pins; and it consists in a box having interior divisions and a removable cover, the essentially novel feature being that said box is of unequal depth by bein g beveled or inclined across the top, so that the hair-pins of unequal length, being properly deposited in the several compartments, will severally project above the top sufficiently to be readily seized and withdrawn. The cover fits over and incloses the inclined part of the box, so that the package, as a whole, is sym-- metrical in form.

view of the box and contents with the cover lifted. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the box and cover in an axial plane through the highest and lowest points of the box.

A is the base or receptacle proper, and B is the cover.

A is the flange of the box, over which the cover sets down closely when closed.

0 O are partitions dividing the box into compartments for the reception of the several different sizes (or lengths) of hair-pins. The shorter ones are placed in the shallower compartments and the larger ones in the deeper compartments, as shown, and being thus aruncovered box far enough to be readily selected andtaken out with one hand,and without tipping the box. At the same time the longer as well as the shorter pins are supported by the box for the greater part of their length, and they do not fall over outward,so as to interfere with putting on the cover, as is the case when the box is uniformly shallow enough for the shorter pins. The partitions G C may be of the common pasteboard construction, and either removable or permanently secured in the box. In any case apartition arranged between the lower and the higher parts of the box should be also inclined on its upper edge, as shown.

In order that the cover B may be supported properly without resting upon the top of the contained pins, which, as stated, extend above the highest point of the box A, a bead or shoulder, a, is desirably provided, as clearly indicated.

I claim as my invention The hair-pin package described, consisting of thebox A, having an inclined top, and a bead, a, for supporting the cover, the partition, 0, dividing the box into compartments for hairpins of unequal length, the contained pins extending above the box-top, and the cover B, supported by the head a, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ranged they all project above the top of the my invention I affix my signature in presence JOHN B. GREEN, JOHN G. FREEMAN. 

